This is a project that I've been working on that emulates what it would've been like to call Dial-A-Song in the 1980s. The song shown in this video is "Heptone", but under normal use the songs are randomly selected from a pool of 80s/90s Dial-A-Song recordings. Inside the phone is an Arduino Uno that reads incoming pulses from the dial, and then sends the data to an external computer running a program in Processing that plays the appropriate sounds. (The phone audio is low in video.)
like seriously whatever you do dont think about the captain and that story about someone calling into gay bars and not saying anything, just listening to queer people living and laughing and having fun. definitely don't think about the captain doing that. haha.
A visual history of telephones (some early ones may be replicas), dated, from top to bottom: 1876, 1878, 1882, 1898, 1913, 1928, 1944, 1961, 1978 and 1997.